On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 19:18, Rodney Dawes wrote: > I have just released the initial revision of the new wallpaper capplet > that I have been working on in my spare time, and has been under > discussion on gnome-themes-list. This initial release is quite > featureful, yet it is still missing the "random" feature that was in > my mock up, as well as some other features and functionality that are > outlined in the TODO file that is included in the tarball. > > The main feature is the storage of meta-data and the list of available > wallpapers, in an XML file in ~/.gnome2/. For each individual image, the > filename, a descriptive name, image scaling type, background color type, > and background colors are all stored. There is no DTD yet, but one will > be written for the next release. > > Also left to do, is to write the logic for detecting if the image is a > tile or should be scaled or what. It currently detects most tiled images > already though, on the basis of height vs. width. If they are the same, > Tiled is automatically selected. > > I'm also proposing that we replace the current capplet(s) with this one > for GNOME 2.6. > > Here are the relevant URLs: > > http://www.gnome.org/~dobey/gnome-wallpaper-properties-real.png > http://www.gnome.org/~dobey/gnome-wallpaper-properties-0.2.0.tar.gz > > -- dobey I don't know if it's possible or not but is there any hope of getting multimonitor support for wallpapers. It would be nice if it could detect multiple monitors and allow for different images on each. Thanks, tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb unh edu | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | =======================================================================
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